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I am just starting to look at writing class in Python. Can a class that I write inherit Python calendar?

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Does anyone have a meaningfull example of the use of the Profiler included in Python?

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I know that lambda is some kind of function in Python. What does it do? Why would one use it?

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I hope the spelling isn't too far off, but what is list comprehension statement and why would one use it?

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Hello! I'm a total dummy when it comes to programming, and now I have a heck of a data extracing job to do for my graduation thesis :cry: Hopefully somebody can help me in the right direction here, because a whole day of surfing didn't get me to the right …

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[B]Python and the JPEG Image File, Part 1, The Header[/B] [B]Intro[/B] The JPEG image file format (.jpg) is very popular on the internet because you can pack a lot of picture information into a relatively small file. There are competing file formats like GIF and PNG. GIF is rather limited …

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[B]Intro[/B] When you declare an integer variable in C, the variable is assigned a fixed memory location with enough space to hold the type integer. When you then initialize the variable with a value, the value is put into that space. Take a look at the C code sample below: …

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I am currently finishing up my B.S. in Computer Science at a local private University. When I started a couple of years ago, C++ was taught in the intro to programming course for freshmen. About two years later, Java was taught as a first language. (I disagree with that because …

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Is there a way one can interrupt the sleep() function with a key press in Python?

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For my simple programs I have wirtten, I have just been using a simple editer with syntax highlighting. This seems sufficient. What kinds of thing can a good IDE do for me?

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Couldn't sleep last night, so I was browsing and found the "Starting Python" thingy. I must say Python looks interesting from the examples. I learned C++ in school, Python sure looks easier to understand. Does any one think it's better than C++?

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Python is relatively new to me. I have mostly programmed in C and C++. I read that Python has a good build-in debugger, but I can not understand the information in the reference manual. Can anybody please give an actual commented example how this works.

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hello fellows, I seem to have a little problem: I tried to use the function getattr([I]object[/I], [I]attribute[/I]) with two strings which is being read from a xml file as arguments, and seem to have a problem with sending the first one as a string. the function thinks that the string …

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I have read vegaseat's "Projects for the Beginner" sticky and got really interrested in the eqaution solver for physics or mathematics problem. I just need a little Python hint how to get this started.

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Thanks a lot for the help on my last question. I have another problem that I need help with. I need to generate the check digit for an ISBN number. Like if the input is 076372339 the function should return 8. To find the check digit, which is the last …

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I know Python has adopted Java's decorator, but I can not make much sense from the reference manual example. It would be nice if soemone could give a good example of the implimentation of a Python function decorator.

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alright, I'm new to this community and I have been reading the beginners posts, and I am still having trouble. I need to design a function for a class. It needs to convert decimal numbers to base 16. So for example if the input is 705083, then the function should …

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Hello beautiful people..! i need a way to run a python program from another one... does anyone know what is the best way to call a process which runs another program in python, and when running that child process, causing the parent process to continue without waiting for the child …

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I want to make a small backup script to copy files to cdr. Are there any python modules that can accomplish this?

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Hello, I've been experimenting with different Python IDEs since I started to learn Python. I must say that WingIDE is the best I tried, but unfortunately it's not free and that 10 minutes use is killing me. So I decide to write my Python programs in DrPython which was recommended …

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Hello, I'm trying to execute this simple code: [code] class Person: population = 0 def __init__(self, name): print 'Creating % s peron' % name self.name = name Person.population += 1 def __del__(self): print 'Destroying %s person' % self.name Person.population -= 1 prvi = Person('Asimi') drugi = Person('Mici') [/code] I'm using …

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Hi, I've been trying to make a really simple word unscrambler, that takes a scrambled word, and then compares it to a txt file filled with words. The problem I'm getting, is that I'm trying to only read the first word of each line, and if it finds the word, …

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Here's a cute little encipher/decipher program with a Tkinter GUI I wrote a while back. It's an implementation of a derivative of the Vigenere algorithm; the algorithm is taken from Laurence Smith's [U]Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing[/U], Amazon link [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/048620247X/qid=1125004078/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-6170856-3267319?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]here[/URL]. It's a dated book (and the technique itself is …

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Hello, I am new to Python and I am just starting to figure things out but this one has me stumped. I need to capture the exit code of my processes in order to track them in a database. I have all the other components working except this. In DOS …

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Hello, I've downloaded PythonWin as a better IDE for writing Python code. I came across an interesting issue (as vegaseat pointed out) When I try to write this sentence in my native language "Ja sam

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I want to read everything from a file using python. the one problem i am having (note: EVERYTHING from a file) is that python is returning an EOFError when i know that it's not the end of the file, is there any way to just read the damn thing till …

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I'm completely new to python and really need help with this. I have written this basic cash fund program that allows a person to withdraw, deposit, and receive a balance from it. But now I need to now add email capabilities, by setting up a database (or list) of account …

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Hey there, i have a simple question about getting a script to do two things at once. like this. for i in range(100): print i time.sleep(.2) if i == 15: os.system('python /home/me/ipupdate.py') print 'done' when i run this, it stops at 15 and runs the script called out in the …

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Hai Friends This is my first post to this forum. I am new to Python but I find its quite interesting. I have a problem with the folowing code... ########################## import telnetlib import sys HOST = "192.168.10.5" USER = "somename" PASSWORD = "somepassword" telnet = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST) telnet.read_until("login: ") telnet.write(USER + …

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